Show I HAF1 IS GAUSTIG J t Shifts Blame On Those Who Ordered I a Summer Campaign AN INTERESTING STORY j ITERESTING GE RVW OF OPERATIONS TONS AT SANTIAGO Would Bather Have Yellow Fever Tn the Burning Malaria Which t Et Up Humt In Cua f SwampsThat He Achieved 1n der Distressing Cicustces t f New York Sept 2The World prints an interview with General Shafer In which he Is represented a sayingAt SantIago we had to deFwih things a they were not as they should have been Of course there was sickness I was inevItable in a summer campaign cam-paign But nobody was neglected The scarce at first but we doctor were scrce frt had boat loads of them as soon a they could get 1lere The doctor got sick like the rest They were overworked and exhausted but their ability was unquesUonable Look at the low percentage per-centage of deaths from wounds I never cent was lower in any war Why In the civil war I lay on the battlefield te developed in my myself until maggots I wounds and was right near by not down In a malarial subtropical country S coun-try far away THE MEN RESPONSIBLE The men whc ordered a summer campaign In a fever Inested country are responsible for the natural and unavoidable un-avoidable consequences None of our wounded were allowed battlefield I was In the to lie on the battefeld as wa le war Nothing of the kind happened hap-pened aesthetes were plentiful It was the hat that was so deadly and the rains Right jn the midst of the most torrId heat a shower would fall I would drench everybody without with-out cooling the air In a few minutes under the sun again ever man would be steaming Men of the strongest constitutions succumbed Our that case of yellow fever developed eloped at EI Cane But the army was ripe for i and It spread like a prairIe fre Many a man had yellow fever who never wii know it And to tel the truth it Is not so dangerous as the clentur or heat attacks of Cuba Why Why I is a common thing for a mans temperature to rise from a normal state to 105 in a few hour That mea death in most cases WORSE THAN YELLOW FEVER It can give cards and spades to yellow fever in the game of death I would rather have yellow fever I tel you when a man burns up inside there Is little hope for him Our men were all unacclmated They never had fnced constant sunny sun-ny of them never had slept outside before they went into camp How could they be moulded into proper material for such climate rnd such a campaign I could not be done These campaig men you see coming back with thin bodies and the yellow fever are suffer Ig from the parasites of the low fever fom te of the Santiago plateaus The cool air and good home care will cure them That malady seems to destroy the red corpuscles In the blood The veins are fled with water Theres a man on deck suffering just that way Take a good look at him If he were pale you would say he was In the lat stages of tubrcutosls But he is a yellow a his uniform Very well he has It He Is weak and will requIre care But good air and a decent climate will make him well again He h had the fever within three week He does not I know how narrow has been his escape from death Wait till October or bet still the frt frost They will be wholesome nu all right when they get i tIous food CHOSE THE LESSER EVIL We had to thoose the leSer of the two evisto ship the men north to a healthy climate not wanting to keep healhy them where they must die We at the front did not walt to let the fever have its run We wanted to save life Now the rn problem wis to save the most lives posslbe We have never had a foreign wa since 1811 The United States ha no hospital ships It was not a question of using what was best but queston what we had We used the transports down that brought the troops If I could have a few weeks to culp hospital shIps the conditions would have been better I the war had continued con-tinued we would have stayed right there fever or no fever The sudden end of the war was unexpected We were not prepared for the unexpected I made It an invariable rule to send home 25 per cent less on a transport than she had brought south That was a fair view to take SANTIAGO CAMPAIGN 1 am satisfied with the Santiago cathpalgn When I Is fully under ctpalg stood with all Its difficulties it will receIve just place in military history Ve were hurried off to Cuba We landed land-ed and could not have gotten our stores back on boar If we wanted to When the Invasion was planned It was obvious obvI-ous tat i might be a rush such a It wa wasAnd I was a succssoplete and 1equlvocal Many thing were done It Is true that were force upon us by he exigencies of the hour but the means employed even under such stress proved to be wisely chosen I was compelled to do t great many things that under different clrumltances would not have been considered 1 sized up the Spaniards correctly For example at San Juan I was sure they would not came out frOm their works and attack us The EI Cane work attcc fight I hoped would be finished at io i t m but It took until 5 oclock and I rather feel now that It was for the best Had I had Lawton on the right of the line we would have undoubtedly taken the city of Santiago that night 1n which case only the grIson would ave surrendered to us whereas later aI the troops In the region surrounding were Included The men outside of Santiago on July 2 could have gone to General Pando I knew that the war was over as soon a Torah spoke to me a1out surrenderlu the troops In the eastern province I almost fell over 1Ve never had on the fighting line at anyone time more than 13000 men and with these we captured 2700 STRONG INTRE CHJNTS Nine thousand Spaniards were for tifed In the best Intrenched positions I ever saw Indeed the intrench meats were of such a character that shelling with guns we had did not do them serious damage Where a 13 Inch shell from our ships dropped Into a house In the town It demolshed the dwelling Lut all the occupant were gone DId Cervera men help in the San Juan fight was asked to clear up a tL moted point t Yes indeed He had 100 men ashore I from his feet 1f the battle of July I Hs chief of staff Bustamente was killed His marines and sailors suffered suf-fered severely Cerver put them all back on board July 2 and on the 3rd he trIed to get to sea The Spaniards were down to their lam bit of rice when they surrendered but they declined m the first day to accept rations offered to them They sid tat American charity humiliated them but I noticed that they came around for the grub on the second I day < j J Why was your food supply short before San Juan H T ACT QUICKLY r had to act quickly and shove my men ight Into the feld becuse I knew they were growing weaker and weaker ever hour We had plenty of rations unloaded at the shore but there was oply a single road hub deep In mud over which they could be brought to the front and 1 we had had a god amy wagon we could not haye got the provIsions where they were needed Pak trans save us They were Invaluable SANTIAGOS CONDITION TODAY What Is the condlt n of Santiago today was asked It Is in a fair state of health replied plied Genera Shafer Under the mi Itry governorship now In existence it will be soon cleaned and made thoroughly thor-oughly healthy It Is a pretty town but the surrounding countrr Is In a state of wreck You cant Imagine the destitution of the island of Cuba What do you think of the Spanish hospitals Those In Santiago are as god as any in the world My surgeons tell me they Inspected them carefully and never saw better sanitary arrangements arrange-ments The chief hospital there will hold 200 patents comfortably and during the Investment of the city atone at-one time held 3000 men The barracks are not so satisfactory but they are being thoroughly overhauled by our troops The city is growing quiet Did you see any reoneentrdos MOST OF THEM DEAD I THE DEA Only a few I fear that mot of I them are dead But the death rate In Santiago has dropped from SO a day to U and most of the deaths are of old people or children who had not recovered recov-ered from the starvation which they had endured When will the military occupation of the island occur Some time In the later part of October Oc-tober was the answer You asked me about the use of car airy in Cuba and I reply tat If we have got to go down there and fight the Cuban guerillas we shall want the cva1 beyond question Otherwise not I hop that small garrisons of Infantry scattered over the country will suffice wi sufce How about the western part of the island as the next Inquiry Havana will certainly be garrisoned and everything possible will be done to render the city healthy and revive its prosperity The western provinces are ready for agriculture and crops can b put in at any time ILGER CONTROVERSY General Shafter was fully informed regarding the controversy between General Miles and Secretary Alger He was surprised and said it was the first hint he had had of anything of the kind He knew nothing about the cause or the merits of the controversy What troops are left to garrison Santiago The only troops of the Fifth corps that were left were the Twentyfourth Infantry the remainder of the Ninth Massachusetts about 100 recruits and the last of the sick and wounded These were to have left on the day after the Mexico sailed and are to reach her tomorrow or next day This compll s the withdrawal of the amy of Invabon which was compose of the fifth corps The grison duty Is In other hands Camp The fifth Wikof army tomorrow corps flag will fly over |